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The first
objective of this project is to focus on one Diaspora
community in two different countries: (Iranian
Diaspora in the Netherlands and the US.) The focus on
one Diaspora community will make it possible to
concentrate on the differences within one community.
The comparison between two countries will make it
possible to investigate the element of contextuality
and the transnational nature of identity. In this
process of collective identification, the role of the
Internet will intensively be investigated.
The
second objective of this project would be to
facilitate intellectual and academic dialogue among
researchers who work on Middle Eastern Diaspora
communities here in the Netherlands, in other European
countries, and in the US. In order to achieve this
goal, an international conference will be organized to
bring together international scholars who are
conducting empirical research on Diaspora and
Transnationalism. The results of the conference will
be published as a book collection. The selection for
the scholars who would attend the conference will be
as such that it would serve the diversity of Middle
Eastern Diaspora as much as possible. Such a
production of an alternative voice would contribute
enormously to the existing literature on the subject
both theoretically and empirically.
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Within the theoretical framework of
demonstrating these complexities and the diversity of
the choices that Middle Eastern diasporas make about
identity, homeland, and belonging, this project
focuses on the two objectives of 1) comparing the
differences within the two Iranian Diaspora
communities in the Netherlands and in the United
States, and intensively investigating the role of the
Internet in examining the elements of contextuality
and the transnational nature of identity in the
process of collective identification; and 2)
facilitating intellectual and academic dialogue among
researchers working on Middle Eastern Diaspora
communities here in the Netherlands, in other European
countries, and in the United States by organizing an
international conference to bring together a wide
diversity of international scholars conducting
empirical research on Diaspora and Transnationalism.
The results of the conference will be published as a
collection of books containing important theoretical
and empirical contributions to the existing literature
on the subject.
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